Hi Anastasia

If I have T1 data available in my FS subject directory and I have

Use brain mask extracted from T1 image instead of low-b diffusion image?
# Has no effect if there is no T1 data
# Default: 1 (yes)
#
set usemaskanat = 1

then will the B0 brain mask we spoke of below be used?

Deryk


On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Anastasia Yendiki <
ayend...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> wrote:

>
> Hi Deryk - This variable is only used to average lowb images to create a
> mask, so in your case you can set it to 2 and it'll just use the first 2
> volumes from your nii file. Sorry for the confusion!
>
> a.y
>
>
> On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, Deryk S. Beal, Ph.D. wrote:
>
>  Dear Tracula Users
>>
>> Does Tracula assume that the number of B0 scans, specified in Step 7.3 of
>> the config file tutorial (below), are the first X number of volumes in the
>> 4Dnii.gz file or will the Tracula routines know from the bvals file where
>> the B0 scans are ordered in the file? For example, I have two runs of 16
>> directions + 2 B0s each for each of my subjects. I have merged the two
>> runs
>> together and the resulting file has the volumes ordered such that the
>> bvals
>> are entered into Tracula as follows:
>>
>> 0
>> 0
>> 1000
>> 1000
>> 1000
>> etc
>> 0
>> 0
>> 1000
>> 1000
>> 1000
>> etc
>>
>> My question pertains to the following part of the Tracula config file:
>>
>> Step7.3: Specifying Number Of low-b Images The last step to set up if not
>> using original DICOMs would be to specify the number of low-b images with
>> the following variable:
>>
>> set nb0 = *No. of low-b images*
>> Thank you in advance for your help.
>> Cheers,
>> Deryk
>>
>> Deryk S. Beal, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, S-LP(C), Reg. CASLPO
>> Speech-Language Pathologist
>> C.I.H.R. Post Doctoral Research Fellow
>> Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems Speech Laboratory
>> Boston University, 677 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02215
>> dsb...@bu.edu
>> http://blogs.bu.edu/dsbeal/about/
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